Respiratory Infections News

COVID-19 may negatively affect sperm quality and reduce fertility in men, and the magnitude of that effect may depend on the severity of disease, researchers reported.

Pfizer has fully enrolled its pediatric COVID-19 vaccine trial with 2,259 participants aged 12 to 15 years, a company spokesperson said.

Black and Hispanic or Latinx individuals in the United States are twice as likely as white individuals to say their access to COVID-19 treatments, vaccines and health care is worse than other racial or ethnic groups, an online poll found.

Approximately 76% of patients with COVID-19 in Wuhan, China, still experienced at least one symptom after 6 months, according to a study published recently in The Lancet.

Survey results showed that slightly more than half of adults in the United States were “very likely” to get a COVID-19 vaccine, researchers wrote in the Journal of Community Health.

President Joseph R. Biden Jr. said this week that the government has ordered an additional 200 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine that he expects will be available by mid-summer.

As of Jan. 24, the United States had distributed more than 41.4 million doses of COIVD-19 vaccine, and just over 18.5 million people had received at least one dose, according to CDC data.

Moderna said that its COVID-19 vaccine remains protective against newly emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants, including those first identified in the United Kingdom and South Africa.

Merck said it has discontinued development of two COVID-19 vaccine candidates.

The longer an individual smoked, the greater his or her odds were for COVID-19 hospitalization and death, an analysis of data from a single health system showed.